A Methodology for a Structured Survey of the Healthcare Literature related to Medical Device Users

This article reports on the structured literature survey methodology, which was used to identify how and at what stage users of medical devices are engaged in the medical device technology cycle, including methods and tools for evaluating device outcomes.This was not a conventional systematic review of the literature.The stated purpose of the survey is broader than synthesizing best evidence to inform an area of practice and policy, as undertaken in a conventional systematic review.The survey was systematic in the sense that an explicit search strategy was used with inclusion and exclusion criteria to minimize sampling bias. An established qualitative methodology, framework analysis, was used to organize and synthesize major findings from a broad range of healthcare literature.The search strategy and thematic analysis are presented, to contribute to the literature on review strategies, together with the major findings concerning users and medical devices. Cet article rend compte de la méthode de revue structurée de littérature utilisée pour identifi er comment et à quel étape les utilisateurs de dispositifs médicaux sont engagés dans le cycle de technologie des dispositifs médicaux, qui inclut des méthodes et outils pour évaluer les impacts des dispositifs. Ce n’était pas une revue systématique conventionnelle de littérature. Le but fi xé à la revue était plus large que la synthèse des meilleurs arguments empiriques pour informer un champ de pratiques et de politiques, comme on le fait dans une revue systématique conventionnelle. La revue était systématique au sens où une stratégie de recherche systématique a été utilisée, avec des critères d’inclusion et d’exclusion pour minimiser le biais d’échantillonnage. Une méthodologie qualitative reconnue, l’analyse du cadre, a été utilisée pour organiser et synthétiser les principaux résultats tirés d’une large échantillon de littérature sur les soins médicaux. La stratégie de recherche et l’analyse thématique sont présentées pour contribuer à la littérature sur les stratégies de revues, ainsi que les principaux résultats concernant les utilisateurs et les dispositifs médicaux.

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